Obie

Where Obie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Obie.

  • Vowel-ended
Obie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Peak, #457
    17 babies named Obie, its best rank.
  3. 1917
    Obie Baizley born
    Canadian politician
  4. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #6,816.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Obadiah.
Namesakes
  • Obie Baizley · Canadian politician, 1917–2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.